If it's true, then all that's come out about his assets during the trial might have been an eye opener for family.
I think this is a really perceptive and fascinating point. As a sociopath, IS has spent his whole life manipulating everyone's perceptions of him, and especially close relatives such as his parents, sons and (obviously) partners.
He will have led a compartmentalised life, keeping many aspects of his true nature hidden from the view of third parties. A sociopath fears scrutiny more than anything else - we saw this in his mounting agitation when he realised police interest in him was increasing and that many aspects of his life would be looked at. Sitting in court, having every last detail of his life and nature publicly assessed (including his haemorrhoids) will be pure torture for him!
The love of money is obviously a huge sickness in IS and part of the driving force for his psychopathy. So I think your comment was bang on the money - pun intended. I bet no one knew about his finances - not Helen, not his parents or sons, no one.
Money was far more important to him than anything or anyone. He's a hoarder a miser, and a scrounger, a collector of cold hard cash who literally couldn't get enough of it. I bet this 56 year old, only child made a habit of pleading poverty and going to mum and dad for hand outs. I feel sure they'll have been gobsmacked to hear in court he had a six figure sum salted away! It's good to know he'll have been squirming under all this court room scrutiny of everything from his health to his finances for the last few weeks.
One of my favourite moments was during Trimmer's cross examination, when IS talked about Helen's flat up north as 'ours'. Trimmer immediately corrected him - it's not yours, it belonged to Helen. It was a revealing glimpse of his overweening sense of entitlement. Where Helen, and probably everyone else in his life is concerned, he holds fast to the old adage: 'What's yours is mine, and what's mine's my own'.
I can't wait to see this vile excuse for a man get what's clearly been coming to him for many, many years!